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2006

Title	Issue	Author
Public housing: the Gordian knot?	60	David A. Smith
The Democratic Congress: what it means for affordable housing	59	David A. Smith
The urban workforce affordability gap	58	David A. Smith
The best use of volume cap is affordable rental housing (it confers 3-4 times as much public benefit as any other use)	57	David A. Smith and Ethan Handelman
Housing the world's poor: the four roles of government	56	David A. Smith
Public housing: the ghost of Christmas yet to come?	55	David A. Smith
Rocky harbor? IRS's new non-profit guidelines	54	David A. Smith
Relieving LIHTC hyperactivity by removing artificial barriers to resales	53	David A. Smith and Ethan Handelman
Budget proposal would squeeze HUD again, if it passes	52	Ethan Handelman

2005

Title	Issue	Author
Presidential panel proposes comprehensive revamp of tax code: proposals will impact LIHTC activity and could do severe harm	51	Ethan Handelman and David A. Smith
LIHTC qualified contracts: state rules impose costs and block transactions Supplement to this issue: 50a	50	Adam Galowitz
New York State mandates income method for valuation of affordable housing	49	Ethan Handelman
David A. Smith wins Lange Award from NAHRO	48	Ethan Handelman
Owners win substantial damages in ELIHPA/LIHPRHA litigation: latest Cienega ruling	47	Ethan Handelman and David Smith
Winners, survivors, and losers: HUD reevaluates 50th percentile FMRs; many MSAs will drop back to 40th percentile FMRs	46	Ethan Handelman
Section 8 AAFs: comparability changes ruled breach of contract	45	Ethan Handelman and David A. Smith
Enhanced voucher rent increases, HUD issues guidelines on implementation of Taylor v. Jackson settlement	44	Ethan Handelman and David A. Smith
HUD proposes FY 2006 FMRs in line with FY 2005 FMRs	43	Ethan Handelman
Section 8 restructuring: Flexible Voucher Program introduced (again)	42	Ethan Handelman and David A. Smith
Preservation of Affordable Rural Housing:"A practitioner's guide to the Section 515 program"	41	Shereen Aboul-Saad and Adam Galowitz
Lessons for section from jobs-plus	39	Ethan Handelman and David A. Smith
Announcing the release of "Rethinking Section 8"	37	David A. Smith, commissioned by Living Cities

2004

Title	Issue	Author
Massachusetts State-level Tax Credits	36	Ethan Handelman and David A. Smith
Lowering CRA threshold will cut demand for LIHTCs Updates to this issue: Recap's comments to the FDIC	35	Ethan Handelman and David A. Smith
A Housing Proposal in Need of Repair, rebutting op-ed by HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson	34b	David A. Smith
HUD will defer changing FMR methodology	34c	David A. Smith
FY 05 FMRs still drop significantly even with HUD's rollback of methodology changes	34d	Ethan Handelman
Ad Valorem Real Estate Tax Assessment of Affordable Housing	33	David A. Smith
Recap details preservation tools needed in follow-up to hearing testimony	32b	Todd Trehubenko
Recap suggests need for preservation tools at hearing on GAO report	32	Todd Trehubenko
FVP block grant proposal unresolved; Section 8 funding still at risk	31b	Ethan Handelman
Flexible Voucher Program (FVP), The Administration's Policy case	31	David A. Smith
Block-Granting Section 8 (by another name): Round III, Administration's Implementation of FY 04 Appropriations	30	David A. Smith and Ethan Handelman
Block-granting Section 8, Part II (Flexible Voucher Program, FVP)	28	Ethan Handelman and David A. Smith

2003

Title	Issue	Author
Block granting Section 8 vouchers: good or bad idea?	25	David A. Smith
How DTE-as-EDA would hurt affordable housing Updates to this issue: 24a 24d 24e 24f 24h	24	David A. Smith

2002

Title	Issue	Author
Slicing the takings cake into ever-finer crumbs: Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc., et al. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency et al.	20	David A. Smith